Medical or Clinical Psychiatric Conditions

We are not a medical device and we do not provide medical advice. Accordingly, we don’t recommend that you rely on Whil in that way. We specialize in offering simple, approachable, and easy-to-follow content. The emphasis of our training programs is on prevention and living a healthy lifestyle, as opposed to management and treatment of pre-existing clinical conditions. However we are participating in four NIH funded clinical trials in 2017, and will publish results as they become available. 

If you are looking to use Whil as an approach to 'treating' a clinical psychological condition such as severe depression, anxiety, or schizophrenia, we highly recommend you talk to a physician first about your interest in mindfulness. Although we can’t make personalized medical recommendations, we do know that many people with a wide of range of physical and mental illnesses benefit from making mindfulness part of their daily healthcare plan.

With the support of your healthcare professional, you might then like to explore different options such as one-to-one treatment, MBSR group workshops, as well as online programs such as Whil. Please also note that if you do ever experience any extreme psychological or physical reactions to Whil, we suggest you pause your practice immediately and seek professional medical help.

Without offering medical advice, we can recommend you check out the following resources on mind health.

United States
www.mindsEssentials.org/
www.nimh.nih.gov/index.shtml
www.nami.org

United Kingdom
www.mind.org.uk
www.mentalhealth.org.uk
www.nhs.uk/Pages/HomePage.aspx